Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)
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661. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of admissions of women to a centre (details supplied) in the past ten years. [22006/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The information sought by the Deputy has been requested from the Child and Family Agency and I will respond directly to the Deputy when the information is received.

Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)
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662. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children or babies of women attending a centre (details supplied) in the past ten year period who have been taken into care by social services as a result of being deemed at high risk. [22007/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The information sought by the Deputy has been requested from the Child and Family Agency and I will respond directly to the Deputy when the information is received.

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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663. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 25 January 2017, the number of adults and children in Tusla-funded domestic violence refuges; and the number of adults and children in Tusla-funded domestic violence step-down accommodation on the first day of each month in 2016. [21666/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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As I outlined to the Deputy in my previous response, Tusla does not collect information in respect of the numbers of women and children who use funded domestic violence refuges and step down accommodation on a month by month basis.

Tusla data indicates that in 2015, 1,736 women and 2,621 children were forced to leave their homes as a result of domestic violence and were accommodated in domestic violence accommodation. Data on the numbers of women and children who used these services in 2016 will be available in Quarter 4, 2017.

In 2016, Tusla provided €20.6 million in funding to support the provision of Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence (DSGBV) Services. This included funding for some 60 services throughout the country comprising:

- €12.0m for emergency refuge and support services,

- €4.6m for community based domestic violence support services, and

- €4.0m for Rape Crisis Centres.

This year, Tusla is allocating €22.1m to DSGBV services, an increase of €1.5m over 2016.

The provision of domestic violence refuge spaces nationally in 2016 was 155 family units, comprising 147 emergency refuge family units and 8 emergency non-refuge family units.

In 2017, Tusla is giving priority to implementing actions contained in the second National Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Strategy, in preparation for ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention), which includes improving access to services geographically, including the provision of additional short-term and safe, emergency accommodation for women and children.